Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.